hey everyone! im having an originally-dry-but-now-phlegmy-cough, but i still had a great christmas. :D okay basically i was supposed to go for trng on xmas morn cuz theres no trng in the aft but i dint go in the end cuz jiao lian said (during friday evening trng) that i could rest at home since we wont be doing much anw. yupp. so i bummed around and did abit of my scrapbook in the morn then went to heartland mall for lunch. ate at yoshinoya then went to popular to buy stuff. bought ivory-coloured metallic cardpaper for my scrapbook and a really nice notebook (in popular standards) for next yr :D and got really nice cookies and cream gelato from the new gelato shop thingy downstairs :)) [digress: i've lost weight! AHH! how can?! :( ] then came back home, did more of my scrapbook, and got ready to go to my distant aunt's house for a sort of xmas gathering/party. reached there at around 6+. patted blance (spelling? :p) their really gorgeous white femme feline and pepsi the next door dog who's really nice :) i swear she knows me :p. blance kept rubbing against me. haha. but she scratched my hand while attempting to play with it. :( then i sat down to read deception point for the millionth time while waiting for more relatives, hence, more food (it was part potluck) to arrive.

So many people came! i couldnt recognise a few of the aunts and uncles and i forgot how to greet some of those i could recognise :p its not my fault! they're like distant distant relatives. blehh. and they couldnt recognise me either. i didnt bother to count how many remarks were made over how much i have changed. good/bad? :p and a few thought i've stopped swimming cuz they said i've become fairer! must be cuz i've been trng at night for a long time. OH YA. I MUST SAY THIS. my grandaunt (i think) didn't know who i was! (well okay, actually alot of them dint until someone told them) but my grandaunt thought i was someone's girlfriend okay! SHEESH. X bleargh. oh and cuz one of my aunts gave a few of us children (she prob gave it to me cuz she knows i like art and crafts) this paper box thingy to decorate before the party, n we were supposed to bring it tt day. so it was like a competition thingy. and then she chose the top four and we got to choose which bookmarks we wanted first. its those cute kind u clip onto the page. i chose the dolphin, naturally. XD then we each got ALOT of chocolates to put in and bring home. wahaha! hersheys!! :p lala. then she insisted on passing around all the boxes to show the people and guess what? my mum's cousin's husband (the head of the family whose house we were in) said mine was nicest. -beams- haha. but seriously i dint spend alot of time on it and my mum kept saying it was too simple to be nice. there was just a glittery angel on the front and a star thing at the back. but nvm, simplicity's still the best. :)) aft that i got my pressies and went home.

then on the 26th my bro and i went for arabelle's church's gospel meeting in the morn. the pastor(i think) was nice. he gave us a bible each. :D ahaha. her dad conducted the sermon in chinese and the person translating it into english dint really know how to translate a few parts so it was quite funny. :p aft tt we walked to ps (it was quite near) and i went to buy some late xmas pressies for people while waiting for my parents to arrive. went to yamaha to look at piano score books and saw a josh groban one! :))) then my parents came and we went to get a sit at the food court before i dragged my mum to yamaha. so i showed her the josh groban one and browsed around abit more to see if there were any nicer books. then my mum saw this really THICK book with a whole lotta movie hits. it has like 644 pages!! and 149 songs. alot of nice ones. like come what may from moulin rouge and in dreams from lord of the rings. then the josh groban one had only 15 songs and the movie one was only 5 dollars more ex, so i was deciding which one to get cuz its really ex, like $40+ for one book? and i think i decided on the movie hits one but then my mum was nice and just got both for me anyway. :D haha. yayness! :D after lunch we went to bibi and baba to get new school u for my bro since ri and rj's uni's more or less the same anw, and walked around isetan for awhile. went home.

went for trng in the evening and saw amanda mei! who's finally back from bali. haha. tanned. :p and got really great pressies from the girls. :) i only brought van's pressie thou cuz i havent wrapped the rest. :X

anw, thnx everyone for the greetings and cards and pressies! :) hope you all had a fab xmas! :)